Integrating Patents (Class 235/61C)
  • Patent number: 4166510
    Abstract: Flowable solids are continuously and accurately weighed during transport to a collection or discharge point. A counterweight pivoted conveyor carries a rotating disc at its discharge end, one face of which frictionally engages a relatively stationary comparatively small diameter wheel having a plane of rotation at right angles to the plane of the disc. The disc rises and falls with the pivotal conveyor in response to varying amounts of material on the conveyor, thereby changing the effective radius of the disc relative to the wheel. The wheel activates a counter once during each rotation thereof to register a unit of weight in the counter. The structure is useful in agriculture or industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Inventor: Paul H. Hege